First World War Centenary News Archive

January 21, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

First World War Centenary “largely ignored” in Russia

The Moscow Times interviews British historian Sir Max Hastings about how “World War I was very nearly written out of Russian history during the early years of the Soviet Union”.

January 21, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Centenary News films the WFA’s ‘Great War Underground’ conference

Centenary News has filmed The Great War Underground, a conference organised by the WFA and the National Army Museum to explore the hidden world of the tunnellers who fought below ground.

January 21, 2014 CN Editorial TeamVideos

Centenary News films the WFA’s ‘Great War Underground’ conference

Centenary News has filmed The Great War Underground, a conference organised by the Western Front Association and the National Army Museum to explore the hidden world of the tunnellers who fought below ground.

January 22, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

UK National Archives digitises First World War Certificates of Exemption from fighting

The records of more than 8,000 British men who pleaded not to fight in the First World War have been put online by the National Archives in London.

January 23, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Britain’s National Army Museum starts Centenary project to honour the “forgotten” casualties of both World Wars

The National Army Museum in London has appointed two expert researchers to help honour unrecorded casualties of the First and Second World Wars.

January 23, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

BBC’s Dan Snow asks: How did so many soldiers survive the trenches?

As the BBC prepares to mark the Centenary with its World War One season, historian Dan Snow asks: ‘How did so many soldiers survive the trenches?’

January 24, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Would you like to be a volunteer writer for Centenary News?

Centenary News is looking to expand its team of volunteer writers – to help us continue to provide coverage of the upcoming 100 year anniversary of the First World War.

January 24, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

‘The Army Children of the First World War’ Centenary project

The Army Children Archive (TACA) has developed a project to mark the Centenary of the First World War, which focuses on children during the conflict who had fathers serving in the British Army.

January 24, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Gavrilo Princip “to have monument” in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia

The Serbian daily, Novosti, reports an initiative by the Government of Serbia will see a monument to Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin – Gavrilo Princip – erected in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade.

January 26, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

UK announces ‘Last Post’ mass participation music project for Centenary

The UK’s Communities Secretary has announced that a mass participation music project for 300 communities will take place in every year of the Centenary.